NYPL Vermont Lake Monsters

Lake Monsters Return To Win Column With 3-1 Victory At State College

Published on July 13, 2010 under New York-Penn League (NYPL)
Vermont Lake Monsters News Release


STATE COLLEGE, PA --- The Vermont Lake Monsters got back in the win column on Tuesday afternoon as Colin Bates and Shane McCatty both tossed four strong innings, while Russell Moldenhauer added a two-run double in a 3-1 victory over the State College Spikes in New York-Penn League action at Medlar Field.

Vermont got its first run in the top of the first as Hendry Jimenez tripled with one out and scored on a Stephen King sacrifice fly. Jimenez's triple was just the second of the season for the Lake Monsters and the first since Ronnie LaBrie tripled on June 22nd.

Bates got the start for Vermont and allowed three hits with one walk and two strikeouts over the first four innings. Two of those hits were two-out singles in the first and the other a two-out single in the second. McCatty (2-1) took over in the fifth, allowing one run on four hits in his four innings for the win.

The game stayed 1-0 Vermont until the sixth when Spikes reliever Trent Stevenson walked Chad Mozingo and Stephen King ahead of Moldenhauer's two-run double to centerfield. It was Moldenhauer's first double of the season to go along with his five home runs and he nows leads the team with 13 RBI in just 11 games.

McCatty had a 16-inning scoreless streak snapped in the seventh inning when he gave up a one-out double to Matt Skirving and a two-out RBI single to Gift Ngoepe, who was tagged out trying to advance to second. Neil Holland tossed a scoreless ninth inning to earn his second save of the season.

David Freitas was 2-for-4 with an RBI to extended his hitting streak to 11 games, the longest for a Lake Monster since J.R. Higley and Francisco Soriano both had 12-game hit streaks during the 2009 season. Freitas, who is now hitting .381 overall, has nine two-hit games during the 11-game hitting streak.

Starter Tyler Waldron (0-2) gave up one run on four hits over five innings to take the loss for State College (13-12), which had won the first two games of the series to give Vermont its first series loss of the season.

Vermont (18-7) finished the six-game roadtrip with a 3-3 record and now return home to historic Centennial Field to begin a six-game homestand on Wednesday. The Lake Monsters will host the Aberdeen Ironbirds (Baltimore affiliate) Wednesday and Friday beginning at 7:05 pm, along with a Thursday 11:05 am contest.

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